The Dinner Game

There are many movies that are originally French and are created into American hits. A prime example would be The Dinner Game, a story about a funny man who makes a wealthy married man have a terrible night. Another example would be the "Adventures of Tin Tin," comic series. It recently was made into an animated movie and won a Golden Globe or Best Animation. In all, there have been over 80 movies that were originally French and were made into American pictures. On the other hand, there have been American movies made into French ones. One includes The Beat that My Heart Skipped, that was first called Fingers in the United States.

The Dinner Game

Today in class, we finished the French movie The Dinner Game. Basically, it is the same plot as the American movie Dinner for Schmucks, but The Dinner Game was the original. The basic plot of the story is that there is a group of wealthy men who have a dinner every week and they each bring a total idiot and they make fun of them. Pierre Brochant meets a man by the name of Francois Pignon, who builds various monuments out of matches. Pierre gets in a fight with his wife about the dinner and that he shouldn't do it, and she leaves him. Following this spat, Francois enters the apartment on invitation and tries to fix the situation. He calls various people to help Pierre and seems to make everything worse. The Story comes out to be very entertaining and funny.